Feature Proposal: Support Authenticated Proxy
Motivation
TWiki already supports a proxy for INCLUDE and other functions where TWiki requests external resources, such as RSS feeds via
HeadlinesPlugin.
Description and Documentation
This is a proposal to enhance TWiki to support authenticated proxies, e.g. proxies that require a user and password.
TWiki's configure already supports these proxy settings:
$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{HOST} = '';
$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{PORT} = '';
$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{SkipProxyForDomains} = '';
New configure settings defined in
twiki/lib/TWiki.spec:
# **STRING 30 EXPERT**
# User name for proxy that requires authentication. The Perl LWP module
# is required for authenticated proxy.
$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{Username} = '';
# **STRING 30 EXPERT**
# Password for proxy that requires authentication.
$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{Password} = '';
Examples
Impact
Implementation
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Contributors: PeterThoeny - 2010年09月01日
Discussion
Actually, that is a small and safe enough feature enhancement, so it could go into next patch release of
HelsinkiRelease, e.g. TWiki-5.0.1. Opinion for and against?
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PeterThoeny - 2010年09月01日
very much required, I support this.
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SopanShewale - 2010年09月03日
For Istanbul or already for TWiki-5.0.1?
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PeterThoeny - 2010年09月03日
This proposal is now
AcceptedBy7DayFeedbackPeriod.
Minor spec change from
$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{User} to
$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{Username} to make it orthogonal to the existing
$TWiki::cfg{SMTP}{Username} setting.
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PeterThoeny - 2010年09月07日
This is a minor enhancement that can go into the next patch release, e.g. TWiki-5.0.1.
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PeterThoeny - 2010年09月07日
This is now in
SVN trunk and 5.0 branch.
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PeterThoeny - 2010年09月08日